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Michael Portas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study is primarily intended to examine whether district level performance results from Grade 8 ELA state assessments can help to predict future passing rates on AP exams. The participants for the study are all 218 K-12 school districts in New Jersey, all of which generated results across score levels and passing rates for PARCC…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Tests
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Preeya P. Mbekeani; Daniel Koretz – AERA Open, 2024
Validity studies of college admissions tests have found that, on average, students who are Black or Hispanic earn lower freshman grade-point averages (FGPAs) than predicted by these test scores. This differential prediction is used as a measure of bias. These studies, however, conflate student and school characteristics. The differential…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Grade Point Average, Racial Differences
Edgar I. Sanchez – ACT Education Corp., 2024
Prior research has shown the importance of the ACT score and high school GPA (HSGPA) in predicting college success. Early college success, as indicated by students' first-year college GPA (FYGPA), plays a pivotal role in later college success and timely degree completion (Demeter et al., 2022; Gershenfeld et al., 2016). The accurate prediction of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Grade Point Average, Scores, Predictor Variables
Walton, Kate E.; Allen, Jeff; Burrus, Jeremy; Murano, Dana – ACT, Inc., 2022
Social and emotional (SE) skills are known to be linked to many important life outcomes, some of which fall in the academic domain. For example, meta-analytic analyses show that conscientiousness (a trait related to self-management, perseverance, and being organized and planful) accounts for 28% of the explained variance in academic performance…
Descriptors: High School Students, Social Emotional Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development
Alysia A. Jenkins – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Empirical research on the predictors of the edTPA scores is growing in education literature. However, to date minimal empirical literature exists on edTPA and physical education as a specific program area. State policymakers, educator preparation program administration, and physical education teacher education faculty may benefit from…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, College Entrance Examinations
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Alotaibi, Nayef – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Although many studies have examined the ability of admission tests and High School General Point Averages to predict academic performance, they are not in agreement whether or not, these two measures are an entirely sufficient criterion to foretell college learning success. In addition, there seems to be a gap in the literature concerning using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade Point Average, High School Students, Standardized Tests
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Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Kühling-Thees, Carla; Gordon, Judith; Reichert-Schlax, Jasmin; Happ, Roland; Pant, Hans-Anand – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
According to teaching-learning theories, interventions in educational practice require a valid diagnosis of students' learning preconditions. Cognitive dispositions at the beginning of studies are the strongest predictor of knowledge acquisition. In the context of increasing numbers of beginning students with heterogeneous preconditions, valid…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Intervention, Educational Practices, Predictor Variables
Alexander, Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The lack of college readiness in the United States is a critical issue that jeopardizes our economy. The demographic inequality of the crisis, particularly for low-income as well as Black and Latinx students, emerges from systemic problems of race and class in American education and society which suppress students' educational and economic…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Standardized Tests
Allison M. Murray – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Each year many students take college admissions exams (i.e., SAT® and ACT®), hoping to demonstrate their ability to perform at a collegiate level and gain admission to desired universities. However, a growing movement encourages colleges and universities to abandon this practice in their admissions protocol and instead consider alternative…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, College Applicants, Psychometrics, Student Characteristics
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Hsieh, Tzu-Ling – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
A new college admission policy will be implemented in Taiwan in 2022. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between admission criteria and college success. Data was obtained from the Taiwan Higher Education Database; a sample size of 8443 students from 156 universities was used in this study. By using the structural equation…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Preeya Pandya Mbekeani – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Validity studies of college admissions tests have found that black and Hispanic students typically perform worse in college, as measured by their freshman grade point average (FGPA), than predicted based on college admissions test scores. These studies, however, conflate student and school characteristics when estimating differential prediction.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Grade Point Average, Racial Differences
Bracco, Kathy Reeves; Huang, Chun-Wei; Fong, Tony; Finkelstein, Neal – WestEd, 2021
This report concludes a multiyear series of implementation studies intended to inform the California State University (CSU) system about the implementation of Executive Order 1110 (EO 1110). A major policy established in 2017, EO 1110 requires CSU campuses to eliminate noncredit developmental courses (often known as "remedial" courses)…
Descriptors: State Universities, State Legislation, College Readiness, State Policy
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Alkushi, Abdulmohsen; Althewini, Abdulaziz – International Education Studies, 2020
Admission criteria can be used to predict Saudi student performance in college, but significant differences across several studies exists. This study explores the predictive power of admission criteria for college assignment using King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences as a model. Scores from high school and standardized tests were…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Grades (Scholastic)
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McConnell, John R.; Bruster, Benita G.; Smith, Vicky B. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate a set of teacher-level factors that educator preparation providers (EPPs) may be examining to anticipate how effective teachers might be in the classroom. An ordinal logistic regression was performed to determine impact on teacher effectiveness, given five predictor variables: level (undergraduate vs.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Teacher Effectiveness, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Sage, Andrew J.; Cervato, Cinzia; Genschel, Ulrike; Ogilvie, Craig A. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2021
Students are most likely to leave science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors during their first year of college. We developed an analytic approach using random forests to identify at-risk students. This method is deployable midway through the first semester and accounts for academic preparation, early engagement in university…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Identification, Student Satisfaction, At Risk Students
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